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.3 Patented June 3, 1890 WITNESSES INVENTDFI.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT E. HALL, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDEDGAR HALL, OF SAME PLACE.

HAT AND GARMENT HOOK'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,346, dated June 3,1890.

Application filed January 4, 1890. Serial No. 835,903. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. HALL, a subject of Her Majesty the Queenof Great Britain, and a resident of the city of Cambridge, in the countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Hat and Garment Hooks, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hooks for hanging hats, coats, garments, orother wearingapparel, &c.

The invention, in substance, consists of ahook-arm suitable to receiveand hang a hat, &c., on it, and which at its inner end is hinged orfulcrumed on a suitable support and has an upward extension swinging incommon with it in combination with an arm to close and open, and whenclosed to guard the space within and between the hook and its support,and which at its inner end is hinged or fulcrumed 011 a suitablesupport,a connection between said upward extension of the hook and saidguard and a spring or other elastic resistant to act on the guard tohold it opened and to allow it to be closed and automatically to closeit all, so that with the hook, the guard, and connection of hook andguard in their normal positions the hook is opened for placing andhanging a hat, &c., on it, and with a hat, &c., hung on the hook itsweight operates to cause it to close and to hold the guard closed so asto the hook, thereby securing the hat, 850., against accidental escapefrom the hook, and with the weight of the hat removed from the hook theguard is automatically opened from the hook and it and hook and theirconnection all returned to their normal position.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a sideelevation of the garment-hook of this invention in the normal for asupplemental hook 13, located below it. This plate is to be adapted, aswell known or otherwise, suitably for its attachment to the wall of aroom or other place.

The hook of this invention obviously, pref- '5 5 er'ably, is combinedwith a plate A or other suitable support for it, and itis composed,essentially, of a hook-arm C at its inner end fulcrumed on the plate Aand having an upward extension C an arm or guard D at its 60.

inner end fulcrumed on the plate A above and directly over and in thevertical plane of the hook-arm C, a device E- such as a link-'-connecting upward extension of hook-arm C and the arm or guard D, and aspring E or other elastic resistant to act on the arm D to open it andhold it opened from the hook-arm C and to allow it'to be closed thereon.The hook-arm C is of a shape, well known or otherwise, suitable for thehanging of a hat, coat,

or other garment, &c., on it. The arm or guard D is of a shape to permitit to swing upward from the hook-arm C to open the hook, for a hat, &c.,to be hung on it and swing downward toward the hook C, to lie across 7 5and thus to close the open space between the outer end and the supportof the hook C. The link-arm E at its opposite ends is hung on andconfined against escape from the guard D and hook C, and it connects thetwo,

hook toward the guard, and the spring is ap- 8 5 plied to swing theguard and thus to open it and to hold it opened from and to allow it toclose on the hook, as stated, with a hat, &c., hung or weight otherwiseon the hook.

As shown, the hook and guard each have a 0 knob at their outer end. IAgain, as shown, Fig. 2, the spring is a coiled spring, and it is fixedat one end on the support for the fulcrum-pin of the guard and at theother end on said fulcrum-pin, all so as to act by torsion on the guardto open and hold it opened and to permit of its closing.

In Fig. 3 the spring is a bent spring held at one end on the plate A andits other and free end arranged to bear on and by com- 10o pression tomove the guard in a direction to open it from the hook and to becompressed in closing the guard on the hook.

From the description given it is plain that on hanging a hat (shown inpart by dotted lines, Fig. 1) on the hook the guard is automaticallyclosed upon the hat, thereby guarding it against accidental escape.Furthermore, it is plain that on removing the weight of the hat from thehook the guard then antomatically opens, leaving the hat free to beremoved, the advantages of all of which are obvious, not onlyparticularly as to its use for hanging hats of all kinds, but also as tohanging other articles of wearing-apparel or garments, to.

The supplemental hook l3,with the hook of this invention used forhanging a hat, is convenient'for hanging a coat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

A hook for hanging hats, &c., composed of a hook C, having an uprightextension C ata more or less right angle thereto and thereat fulerumedon a stationary support, in combination with an arm or guard D,locatedabove and in the vertical plane of said hook and fulerulned on astationary support, a link E, jointing and connecting said guard at ornear its fulcrum portion to the upper end portion of said uprightextension C of said hook, and a spring F, fixed at one end and at itsother end adapted to press on the guard E to hold itopened from and toallowit to be closed toward the hook C, substantially as described, forthe purpose specified. a

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

' ALBERT E. HALL.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, l\l.=\RION E. BROWN.

